FYI:
- Sirius is the brightest star in the sky and is in the dog that follows Orion around.
- Arcturus is in the constellation Bootes. Bootes looks like an ice cream cone and Arcturus in at the point of the cone.
- Betelgeuse and Rigel are both in the constellation Orion. Rigel is brighter.
- Antares is in the constellation Scorpius.
Have you seen these stars or is Bocagrande too bright? Go to the mountains of Colorado (where I am from) if you want to see a bazillion stars.
Anybody have an estimate for how many Earths might fit inside Antares?
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I actually have seen a lot of stars and constelations in the sky. Usually when I go to the islands because it's not that bright so the sky is clear! It's absolutely beautiful!
Sometimes at night here in Bocagrande I look to the sky and I actually can see the Orion's Belt and also the eye of Aldebaran. It's really beautiful and if you go to the islands you can actually see all the stars very big and bright.
Anybody have an estimate for how many Earths might fit inside Antares?
I have a suggestion of how to look for the answer, I think that if we look for the circumference of the Earth and then look for the circumference of Antares, we could then divide both answers of each circumference and get the number of Earth’s that might fit Antares.
Cheewy, I think your idea is no wrong, but it might need a little bit of more work. Talk to me, maybe we can solve it together because I have a similar idea to yours.
Not in bocagrande, ive seen them in Santa Marta(parque tairona)without a light(all dark).It seems like if a bonch "talc" drops in your black carpet.
nice!, I find this study of stars and costellations really complex therefore interesting. I haven't seen much stars from over here, except when I am at the top of a building or in a very dark place. The ideal place to look should be a very dark place where the sky is the center of attention.
PD: Maybe I haven't seen that much stars because I'm pretty blind when looking at anything that's more that 10 feet away. Hahaha.
Those pictures changed my perspective on what we are. We are nothing compared to what out there... did anyone see the news that some astronomers from Chile found a planet that has characteristics that make it suitable for humans to live in? its temperature is from 0-40 degrees celsius... !!
What is the meaning of life? Nothing we will ever do is really that important... No matter how many lives we save or change; if we become the president of the entire plant and go to Pluto, what is the difference? What does it matter? We are minimum, not even a small ant. I think this is a terrifying thought, all of us want to believe that we are important somehow to somebody, but with this perspective of who we really are it does not really matter.. what do you all think?
Once I saw a little video, I believe it was a commercial on TV or something. It started with an image of the earth and then started pulling away to get a wider image until the final image was a pair of creatures playing with the planets (earth included)as if they where tiny glass balls (bolita-uñita in spanish). Every time I saw it again it would leave a scary hole in my stomach just to think what could lie after the universe. These images that compare the size of our planet to the largest stars KNOWN brings that horrible hole back again into my stomach. What could really bea out there? Is it possible we be the only inhabited planet with all that space around us?
Susy that is Men in black, at the end of the movie... I do not think this is the only inhabited planet, if the universe is so inmense why should we be?
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